# Mitchell Brown (Pittsburg's Original Paramedics, Mental Health and Leadership) - Episode 1251

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Published: 2026-06-09T23:09:59+00:00
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Duration seconds: 8320

## Resource

Mitchell Brown is an Air Force Medic veteran, one of the orginal paramedics from Pittsburgh's Freedom House and retired Columbus City Councilman. We discuss how the loss of his mother sent him into medicine, physical and mental trauma in Vietnam, America's first paramedics, the origin of CPR, the opiod crisis, leadership and so much more.

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